Driving Solar Growth Through Financing: SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive (Part 1)

Lyndon Rive co-founded SolarCity with his brother in July 2006. In its first three years, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California and grew to over 350 employees serving over 500 communities in three states. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer

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Deal Radar 2009: FTRANS

FTRANS provides accounts receivable outsourcing and credit management solutions. It helps small companies manage their accounts receivables so they can have greater access to working capital and increase their cash on hand. The Atlanta-based company focuses on outsourcing the accounts receivables (A/R) of small and mid-size businesses.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 7)

SM: How much of this vision is already playing out? VR: A lot. Our leading edge customers already have it. You can go industry by industry and see how they are doing it. With the scope and velocity of life how it is, there is no other way to solve the problem.

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Deal Radar 2009: Confidela

As readers descended on TechCrunch last week, weighing in on the blog’s decision to publish confidential Twitter documents the microblogging service stored on Google Apps that were sent by a hacker to TechCrunch, Twitter users posted hundreds of tweets expressing their opinions and major media outlets joined the fray with stories that were variations on

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 6)

SM: What was the highlight of your TIBCO journey? VR: The highlight is ahead. The best days are still to come.

Deal Radar 2009: Offerpal

Offerpal is an advertising platform that monetizes social media by awarding users virtual currency in exchange for completing ad offers. Founders Anu Shukla and Mitch Liu combined their experience in online personalization, cost per action (CPA) advertising and optimization technologies to create a technology platform for the social media marketplace.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you sold to Reuters? VR: For a couple of years I ran the company as a separate company that was part of Reuters. They cut another deal with me based on our profitability, so in the end they paid double the initial purchase price due to performance.